Ecuador President: Venezuela To Provide 2 Oil Ri gs This Year / Venezuela enviará dos taladros petroleros este año

Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, or PdVSA, will provide Ecuador with two oil rigs this year to help it increase oil production, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said Thursday. "Venezuela will send us two oil rigs," Correa said in a televised speech alongside President Hugo Chavez, who is visiting the country. "By December we will have two more oil rigs." Chavez' commitment comes despite the fact that PdVSA recently declared a state of "operational emergency" due to a shortage of oil rigs ( full information)/Compañía petrolera propiedad del gobierno de Venezuela, Petroleos de Venezuela, o PdVSA, proveerá al Ecuador de dos taladros petroleros este año, para ayudar a aumentar la producción petrolífera, dijo el presidente Rafael Correa de Ecuador este jueves. “Venezuela nos enviará dos taladros petroleros,” Correa dijo en un discurso televisado junto a presidente Hugo Chavez, que está visitando el país. “Para diciembre los tendremos . El compromiso de Chavez viene a pesar de que PdVSA declaró recientemente un estado de la “emergencia operacional”debido a a escasez de taladros petroleros.